True crime drama follows girl who was kidnapped twice by the same man

Streaming service Peacock is like no other and loves a good crime drama and their latest take on the genre is just as dark and twisted as the last.

Fans of the genre may remember this case from Netflix’s Abducted In Plain Sight, which left viewers on the edge of their seats wondering how something so horrific could have happened.

The drama revolves around the story of 12-year-old Jan Broberg, who was kidnapped from her home in Pocatello, Idaho, and investigators were left perplexed by her disappearance.

She was then kidnapped a second time by who turned out to be the same person just two years later, leaving her loved ones and the authorities just as confused.

Both times she was taken, it was discovered that she had been kidnapped and cared for by a family friend and neighbor, Bob Berchtold, who the family knew as B.

It turned out that Jan had been groomed by B, but her parents, Robert and Mary Ann, had also been trapped in his lies because they trusted him with their children and had their own sexual relationships with him.

The story is now being adapted by Peacock for their series A Friend Of The Family, which stars Anna Paquin, Colin Hanks and Jake Lacy and is produced by Jan herself.

The initial incident occurred in the 1970s, when the family was part of the Church of Latter-day Saints. Because of their friendship and close relationship with Bob, he was never suspected of Jan’s disappearance.

Bob managed to drug the 12-year-old girl and took her to Mexico where he convinced her that she had been contacted by aliens and had been chosen by them for an alien mission to have children with a man they had chosen.

After authorities discovered Jan was legally married to B in Mexico and before he could be reported by his parents, B’s wife Gail threatened Jan’s father that if he didn’t give up the accusations, she would expose her affair with B. Her parents then agreed to sign affidavits claiming that B assumed he had permission to take Jan.

B then managed to rebuild his relationship with the family by beginning an affair with Mary Ann. When Jan was 14 and still convinced she was on an alien mission, she disappeared again.

This time a note had been left saying she had run away but B had taken her away again and she was not reported missing for two weeks.

B was later charged with first-degree kidnapping, among other charges, once Jan was found. It wasn’t until she was 16 that Jan began to believe the truth and that the alien mission wasn’t real.

Jan went on to write a book about her kidnappings called Stolen Innocence: The Jan Broberg Story and later became an actress, now bringing her story to the small screen.